The Rise of the Third Reich

Half a month after the Battle of the Faroe Islands, the battleship "Duke of York" flying a British royal flag, escorted by 1 light cruiser and 6 destroyers, traveled across the ocean and arrived at the St. Lawrence River. of Quebec City.

The reason why the royal flag is flown is because this brand-new battleship is carrying Princess Margaret, the youngest daughter of Queen Elizabeth and King George VI.

The mother and daughter boarded the "Duke of York" on the afternoon of April 7, the day Princess Elizabeth returned to London from the Netherlands, and then left the Port of Liverpool at night... Since then, mother and daughter have been separated. .

However, at this time, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, as well as the Canadians who welcomed them on the dock in Quebec City, did not expect that the two local distinguished guests would stay in Canada for a long time. They never thought that Princess Margaret, who was only 12 years old this year, would become their queen in 10 years - Queen Margaret I of England who was crowned in Ottawa, Canada!

"Sorry, please allow me to ask a somewhat rude question. Will she become Queen Margaret I of Canada?"

It turns out that no one thought that Princess Margaret would become queen. After hearing the news of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret arriving in Canada, US President Roosevelt immediately invited the British Ambassador to the United States, Viscount Halifax. The White House also raised some embarrassing questions in person.

"No, Her Royal Highness the Princess will not become the Queen of Canada, she is the future Queen of England!" Viscount Halifax was silent for a while, and then answered Roosevelt in an inaudible voice.

"The future Queen of England?" Roosevelt looked at Viscount Halifax, "What about Princess Elizabeth?"

Viscount Halifax said in a serious tone: "Princess Elizabeth's love affair with German Prince Friedrich will not be accepted by the British people and government, so she will be deprived of her right to inherit."

"Is there such a thing?" Roosevelt looked at the British ambassador with some surprise, "It was announced that Princess Elizabeth would be deinherited?"

The British ambassador said seriously: "It has been decided, but it has not been announced yet. This needs to wait for the opportunity."

"Timing?" Roosevelt was stunned.

"An announcement will be made once His Majesty and the Government move to Canada."

"Then will Princess Elizabeth come to Canada?"

"No," said Viscount Halifax, "she will remain at home as Regent of the United Kingdom."

Then how can you deprive Princess Elizabeth of her inheritance? Once George VI leaves, isn’t Princess Elizabeth the Queen of the United Kingdom? And you’re depriving me of your inheritance rights!

The President of the United States looked at the British Ambassador speechlessly. The shamelessness and cunning of these elites of the British Empire had reached their peak. How could he come up with such a shameless way to preserve his existing wealth and status.

I am afraid that from now on, every prominent British wealthy family will be divided into two, with one half loyal to George VI and Princess Margaret, and the other half staying in the country as loyal servants of Queen Elizabeth.

This is good. No matter who wins the war, you British wealthy families can keep their glory and wealth without losing anything! Not only is there no loss, there may be additional gains... Canada is much larger than the UK and has much richer resources. If there are millions of British people and a large amount of British capital and technology moving in, it is hard to say whether it will develop in the future!

Roosevelt frowned. These British gentlemen certainly had good calculations. But are all British people fools? Don’t they know the plans of you noble elites? You have left a way out, and you are still prepared to have two boats. Do you still want proletarians like them to die as soldiers? You can’t even think about it!

"Do you still want to defend the homeland?" Roosevelt tilted his big head and looked at Viscount Halifax with a troubled expression.

These days, he discusses the Great Battle of the Faroe Islands and the defense of the British mainland with the generals of the navy, army and army aviation every day.

In fact, the Great Battle of the Faroe Islands was a mixed blessing for the United States. The British defeat is of course worrying. Originally, the European combined fleet led by Germany had the upper hand in the Atlantic. Now that Britain has lost four more aircraft carriers, Germany's advantage is even greater.

However, the U.S.'s shipbuilding capabilities are obvious. Not counting those worthless escort carriers and modified aircraft carriers, one Essex-class ship and at least two Independence-class ships (modified with Cleveland-class hulls) will be completed before the end of this year. By the end of next year, the Essex class will be able to build at least 8 ships, and the Independence class will be able to build 10-12 ships. So this worry is not particularly big.

The Germans' idea of ​​using wire-controlled gliding bombs to hit warships was a great surprise to the United States. Because the electronics industry in the United States is no worse than that of Germany, the remote control equipment that Germany can produce can certainly be produced in the United States. Although we have not seen the prototype of the glide bomb, engineers from Westinghouse and General Electric in the United States were very excited to make it when they heard the idea of ​​"wired remote control".

In addition, the United States' ability to produce high-altitude heavy bombers is definitely more powerful than Germany, Italy, and Japan combined.

So Roosevelt set a small goal a few days ago - to build 10,000 B-24s and B-17s and attach remote-controlled gliding bombs to bomb Japanese warships!

But today, the British queen and princess suddenly came to Canada (the U.S. government didn't know about it in advance), and they seemed to want to live and work in Canada, which suddenly ruined the good situation.

Because once the British royal family, government, nobles and elites fled to Canada, leaving behind a group of proletarian poor women, would they still be willing to fight the Germans? What else should we fight to defend the British homeland?

And if the British mainland cannot be defended, then the United States will have no springboard to counterattack the European continent. Without a springboard, can Americans still cross the Atlantic Ocean, which is 5,000 to 6,000 kilometers away, and land on the European continent? Can the United States still build ultra-long-range bombers with a combat radius of 5,000 kilometers to flatten Europe?

"Mr. President, of course we will defend our homeland! Just as Prime Minister Churchill said in his speech, we will fight the German Nazis anywhere, including our homeland of course! The King and Prime Minister will fight on our homeland until the last moment, and then take the Ultra-long-range aircraft departs.”

Viscount Halifax's words made Roosevelt feel a little reassured. As long as George VI and Churchill did not leave, the morale of the British military and civilians could be maintained.

Viscount Halifax went on to say: "Although the determination of the king and the prime minister to fight can inspire the morale of the British military and civilians, but... we cannot fight based on morale alone!"

"I will immediately order the resumption of transportation of supplies to the United Kingdom." President Roosevelt did not waste any words and immediately cheered the British people up with real money.

"Only supplies?" Viscount Halifax looked disappointed. "The British people expect to fight side by side with the American people against the darkest and most brutal Nazi regime in the world!"

"The United States will join the war!" Roosevelt gritted his teeth. Now he was blackmailed by the British. "The United States will provide escort first. The reason is to prevent Japanese ships from attacking our British allies in the Atlantic! We have received intelligence that a Japanese ship broke diplomatic relations. The battleship has now entered the Atlantic Ocean!"

This reason is quite nonsense. The United States' British allies are almost strangled to death by the Germans, so why do Japanese ships need to travel thousands of miles to break the relationship?

However, the United States is a country that values ​​procedural justice. As long as the procedures are correct, there is no need to worry about others picking on the pigtails.

Although the United States and Britain are not allies in the war against Germany, they are allies in the war against Japan. Therefore, it was legal for the United States to cover British transport ships in the name of fighting Japan. This was Roosevelt's power as a wartime president. If others want to find fault, they have to prove that there are no Japanese in the Atlantic Ocean. Of course, this is impossible to prove.

However, the American hulls escorting British ships could not actively attack German surface ships. You can fight underwater, because underwater, who knows whether you are a German submarine or a Japanese submarine? However, battleships and cruisers floating on the water with German flags cannot take the initiative to attack. Unless the Germans fire first, of course, there is no need to wait for the U.S. warship to actually be hit by artillery shells before fighting back. It only needs the German warship to fire in the direction of the U.S. warship and use live ammunition to determine that the U.S. warship has been attacked by Germany. Then the U.S. warship We can fight back in accordance with the law and provoke a war.

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"Roosevelt! Liar!"

A man was screaming hysterically! Right in the conference room of the German Chancellery, in front of a lot of cabinet ministers.

"He actually said that there are Japanese battleships in the Atlantic Ocean. As the president of a big country, how can he ignore the facts and talk nonsense! How can Americans tolerate such a lying liar staying in the White House? Are they all blind and deaf? ?”

Hessmann listened to Hitler's nonsense, and he already regretted coming to take over Schleicher's job. If he were now the Chief of General Staff, he would not have to attend cabinet meetings at the Prime Minister's Office, and naturally he would not have to listen to Hitler's nonsense every day.

"Hess!" Adolf Hitler roared and asked, "Didn't you say that Roosevelt would not be an enemy of Germany? Didn't you say that the United States would not interfere in European affairs before defeating Japan? Didn't you say that we can make peace with the United States? Living together?"

Rudolf Hess lowered his head, blushed, and looked ashamed as if he wanted to find a hole to burrow into. At first glance, he looked like an honest child who had been deceived.

"Mr. Chancellor," Hessmann didn't want Hitler to scold Hess anymore. There's nothing you can do about being honest. Hess has always been like this. "Actually, it's not that we have no way to deal with Roosevelt...if we don't want to declare war on the United States for the time being."

"What can we do?" Hitler asked, and then, as if to explain his position, he added: "Now is indeed not the time to declare war on the United States... Don't we want to occupy Guyana now as a springboard to enter the Americas? Even if we declare war, We should wait until Guyana is occupied before declaring it.”